This document describes the replication files associated with the paper:
“Are voters less persuaded by female than by male politicians’ statements? A survey experiment in Japan.”

The following files are contained herein:
replication_data.csv (data collected through the survey experiment)
replication_survey_experiment.R (R code to replicate the analyses of the survey experiment)
replication_female_candidates.R (R code to replicate the analyses of the winning probability of female candidates in Japanese national elections)
codebook.pdf (explanation of variables that do not appear in the text)

Instructions for the analyses of the survey experiment:
1. Put “replication_data.csv” in your working directory.
2. Run “replication_survey_experiment.R.”

Instructions for the analyses of the winning probability of female candidates in Japanese national elections:
1. Download the Reed-Smith Japanese House of Representatives Elections Dataset (“Reed-Smith-JHRED-CANDIDATES.dta”) from the Harvard dataverse (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QFEPXD) and put it in your working directory.
2. Run “replication_female_candidates.R.”

All data analyses in this paper were carried out using R version 3.5.3 as well as the following R packages: sandwich package version 2.5-1, lmtest version 0.9-37, clubsandwich package version 0.3.5, effsize package version 0.7.6, ltm package version 1.1-0, dichromat package version 2.0-0, readstata13 package version 0.9.2, multiwayvcov package version 1.2.3, and MASS package version 7.3-51.1. If you do not have some of the above packages, please install them before running replication codes.

If you have any questions or find any problems with the files, please feel free to contact the corresponding author.